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@Tetri: Working with AIWhisperer lately and have a few questions.
- What do you think about transferring some of the found data back into the code for the car? Seems to me that since effectiveness at different tracks ultimately requires changing the settings, so maybe not. And are some of those settings ineffective or counter-effective when a real human is driving the car? Like steering gain (when the user is driving the same car as the ai)? Or do all the settings only affect ai drivers (and only when AIWHisperer is running)?
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So far I'm only working with two variables (mostly, sometimes the closer racing slider), brake hint and turn in (which seems to be corner-radius also) and am getting very good results. I'm staying away from adjusting grip and such (almost) and am finding no need to use them. Civilized ai racing! Apparently if all cars arrive at the corner and turn in correctly there's very little collision action, and even tidy two-wide through the turns! Still the occasional bumper bumped but I also use Stretched Grid keeping things clean. Two wide through the first chicane at Monza! Stoked, I am.
- Another thing, it seems that it's even better if the ai cars don't each have ai_default setups. Or at least they aren't necessary. I suppose ideally I'd drive all the cars and get good setups for them, then review/replace the track ai lines, and Then do the AIWhisperin' but NOT. Gettin closer to racing, not caught in a fixin-things loop. (Maybe we need to set up an AIWhisperer team to mow through all cars & tracks?)
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Look forward to progressing with this and sharing (and getting feedback). GTC is goin smooth.
- to share my settings, is it only settings.ini that needs to be shared?
- I did initial settings at RJ_Monza and saved those as Global settings for all cars (a 24 car subset of GTC60).
- Then I went to a bunch of other tracks, where if the settings didn't hold up I made changes and saved them out as Track specific (like Stardust, Oulton etc)
- but not all cars needed adjustment at the other tracks.
- Question: does saving settings as Track Specific have any influence on the settings previously saved as Global Settings? (and vice versa?) Or can I count on them remaining the same unless I intentionally overwrite?
- Question: Where are the track specific settings saved? I see no reference to other tracks in settings.ini.
- Question: Do I need to "Reload" Global settings each time I start a session? Can I reload global settings and then reload track specific settings after to pick up the cars that do have track specific settings (and leaving the others with the Global settings)?
- Another! Could we have separate settings.ini files for each of different car sets? Nice if we could just pick a carset from a list (or it auto selects the carset based on what it sees)
- Suggestions! Can you get AIWhisperer to auto-select the tab for the focused car? (optionally?) Can you have the tabs go down onto a second row so all tabs are wider and readable? (Tabs get mighty small with lotsa cars)
- What do you think about transferring some of the found data back into the code for the car? Seems to me that since effectiveness at different tracks ultimately requires changing the settings, so maybe not. And are some of those settings ineffective or counter-effective when a real human is driving the car? Like steering gain (when the user is driving the same car as the ai)? Or do all the settings only affect ai drivers (and only when AIWHisperer is running)?
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So far I'm only working with two variables (mostly, sometimes the closer racing slider), brake hint and turn in (which seems to be corner-radius also) and am getting very good results. I'm staying away from adjusting grip and such (almost) and am finding no need to use them. Civilized ai racing! Apparently if all cars arrive at the corner and turn in correctly there's very little collision action, and even tidy two-wide through the turns! Still the occasional bumper bumped but I also use Stretched Grid keeping things clean. Two wide through the first chicane at Monza! Stoked, I am.
- Another thing, it seems that it's even better if the ai cars don't each have ai_default setups. Or at least they aren't necessary. I suppose ideally I'd drive all the cars and get good setups for them, then review/replace the track ai lines, and Then do the AIWhisperin' but NOT. Gettin closer to racing, not caught in a fixin-things loop. (Maybe we need to set up an AIWhisperer team to mow through all cars & tracks?)
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Look forward to progressing with this and sharing (and getting feedback). GTC is goin smooth.
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